Health Information Manager (ANZSCO 224213)

On the Short-term Skilled Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Health Information Manager on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Health Information Manager comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Health Information Manager requires a qualification named to one field only — Health Information Management or Medical Records Management — with no alternative discipline accepted, a narrower requirement than most codes in this family. It sits on STSOL, reaching four visa subclasses: state nomination, the graduate visa and both regional streams, with no employer sponsorship route. VETASSESS's suitable-occupations list names Clinical Trial Data Manager and Health Data Administrator as accepted variants, while explicitly excluding Records Manager and Clinical Coder, occupations its own page describes as classified elsewhere in ANZSCO.

Where these applications come unstuck

The narrow named field is the main trap: a general health-administration, medical-records or hospital-management background without a qualification titled specifically in health information or medical records management risks a mismatch, even where the day-to-day duties overlap heavily with what this code assesses. The exclusion of Records Manager cuts in a specific direction too — general records-management experience, however senior, is explicitly not treated as equivalent evidence here, and vice versa on Records Manager's own page.

An honest read on this pathway

HIMAA, the natural professional home for this occupation, describes itself as "the peak professional body for health information management" — association language, not regulator language — and no compulsory-registration requirement for practising in Australia was confirmed either way in this research. So a positive assessment answers the visa question cleanly for anyone whose qualification matches the named field; whether any further professional credentialing applies on top of that is a separate check worth making directly with HIMAA.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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